SMITH COUNTY CEMETERIES NORTH OF THE CUMBERLAND RIVER

Section 100 Carthage

#110 OLD CITY CEMETERY North west of City Square Carthage, TN

WILLIS, H. Bidge	18 Jul 1881 ‑ 28 Oct 1899
KING, Martha	Age abt 89 years
EDMONDS, Infant	B&D 1926
EDMONDS, Infant	B&D 1928	Inf/o H. & J. Edmonds
HIGH, Esquire	1848 – 1914
HIGH, Ann	1850 – 1915
ALLEN, Herman	1895 – 1913
ALLEN, Mary Ann	1890 – 1913
HUGHES, Willis	B&D 1903	S/o M. & A. Hughes
HUGHES, Benleon	1904 – 1906

#111 WILLIAM WALTON CEMETERY Upper Ferry Road

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WALTON, William, Capt.	1760 – 6 Mar 1816	A Revolutionary War Soldier
WALTON, Sarah Jones	Jun 1763 ‑ 31 May 1840	Wife of W. Walton married Dec 1783 at Winton, Hertford Co. N.C.
Born in Bertie Co. N. C. William Walton fought in the Rev. for that state. He settled in the Cumberland country in 1784 and came to Smith Co in 1786. William Walton served in the legislatures of N. C. and Tenn. and as a Smith Co. magistrate. Land for Carthage and Geneva Academy Smith County’s first school were given by him from his 3 806 acre land grant. He cleared farm land operated a ferry and in 1801 opened the Walton Road from Carthage to Kingston, This cemetery is located near where his old homestead once stood. Said to be one of the first cemeteries opened in Smith Co. it contains the graves of a number of his family and descendants, old pioneer associates and other early day citizens of Carthage and vicinity. In 1978 the Caney Fork Chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution restored this long neglected cemetery. On July 22, 1979 a re‑dedication of this cemetery was held and a DAR marker was placed on the grave of Captain William Walton.
Numerous fieldstones and some stones with no inscriptions

#112 HENSLEY CEMETERY Myer Bottom on a ridge

HENSLEY, Emma	18 Nov 1898– 27 Jan 1919
About thirty unmarked graves

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